In Design 2

This is my now finished first attempt at using in design. I have learned how to place pictures in the rectangle frame box. I have learned the difference between the white and black arrow. The white arrow is direct select and the black arrow selects that box's. I also learned how to place the text inside the rectangular boxes and carry it on by clicking the red expansion box and dragging into another rectangle frame box. The quote shown in the picture above is simply text made bigger and put in a more handwritten style font. I don't know if there is a way where indesign can do it for you yet so I just did this for now.

Dodge, Burn, Unsharpen mask

My version with dodge, burn and unsharpen mask applied

Original

I have managed to achieve a smoother skin tine by using the dodge and burn tools. As you can see in the original there were some heavy lines under the eyes which I have smoothed off by using the dodge tool lightly on the cheeks. On his for head and lower neck in the original there was a bit too much contrast between that and the main skin colour so I used the burn tool to bring the tone of these down. I also did this for the corners of his eyes. This gave a bit more depth to the image. The unsharpen mask was very useful to me in this image as the original that I took was blurry anyway. This meant that I had to put it up quite high but it looks much better with this applied. Overall I think I have made his skin look a lot more natural and have improved on the photograph.

Fonts and Brushes

This is my demonstration of how I can successfully install new brush packs/individual brushes and new fonts onto photoshop. I also learned how to change the rotation and size of the brushes in photoshop as well as the colour. The fonts were harder to do but I managed it in the end. I learned how to change the colour and rotation of the fonts. Unrelated to this task but while doing this it also made me realise how important it is to have most of your parts on different layers in photoshop as when i was doing this the parts were not in the alignment I'd wanted to I had to start again so that they didn't all move when I wanted just one to move.

Healing Brush

My photoshopped version

Original

To create this version of the girl I have used the healing brush tool over the spot healing tool. This is because she has a naturally red face already and with this tool you can choose the about shade of skin that you want to patch over the spots with. This was useful when trying to remove the spots from the cheeks. I also used the patch tool to take some of the redness away from the cheeks. This worked quite well in my opinion as the redness no longer stands out as much and looks much more refined and subtle. However there are some parts of the cheek which I find to be a little more blury than the original.